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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






2. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






3. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






4. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






5. Collection of logically related project activities - usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. project phase is a component of the project life cycle






6. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






7. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






8. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






9. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






10. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






11. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






12. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






13. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






14. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.






15. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






16. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






17. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






18. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






19. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






20. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






21. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






22. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






23. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






24. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






25. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






26. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






27. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






28. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






29. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






30. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






31. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






32. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






33. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






34. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






35. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






36. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






37. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






38. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






39. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






40. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






41. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






42. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






43. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






44. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






45. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






46. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






47. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






48. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






49. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






50. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones







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